Bible Verses About Children #31

Children hold a central place in the Bible’s vision of family and faith, portrayed not as an inconvenience to be managed but as a gift from God worth welcoming and shaping carefully. Scripture speaks to both sides of the relationship: the value God places on children, and the responsibility parents carry to raise them well.

Key Bible Verses About Children

• Psalm 127:3-5 — “Children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward,” pictured as arrows in the hand of a warrior, a source of strength and blessing to a household.
• Mark 10:14 — Jesus tells his disciples, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.”
• Matthew 18:3 — Jesus teaches that “unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven,” holding up childlike trust as the pattern for faith.
• Proverbs 22:6 — “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it,” a promise that early instruction shapes a lifetime.
• Ephesians 6:4 — Fathers are told not to “provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
• Proverbs 17:6 — “Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers,” linking generations together in shared honor.

What These Verses Teach

Two threads run through these passages: children are genuinely valuable to God and to the households they’re born into, and raising them well is a serious, God-given task rather than an afterthought. Jesus’s welcome of children and his call to childlike faith push back against any view that treats children as unimportant until they’re older or more capable; their humility and trust are held up as the very posture God wants from everyone. At the same time, verses like Proverbs 22:6 and Ephesians 6:4 make clear that this value comes with responsibility — parents are called to intentional instruction and patient discipline, not neglect or harshness.

Living It Out

Practically, treating children the way Scripture does means making time and space for them rather than pushing them aside as distractions, following Jesus’s own example of welcoming children who were brought to him. It also means taking the work of instruction seriously — teaching children about God’s ways patiently and consistently, correcting them without provoking anger or discouragement, and trusting that faithful, ordinary daily investment in a child’s life is exactly the kind of training Proverbs commends.